Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 2…

lol, why couldn't the mouse go right up to the table?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mouse · What happens: not go · To what, where: table

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 990 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 201: the elves' glittering maypole and feast, the violet staff and noisy kitchen, then the second mouse sets out to become a poet» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lol	lol	INTJ	_	8 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lol	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 go	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 go	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	right	right	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	up	up	ADP	_	13 table	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 table	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	could	the mouse			the table		right property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up table=Initial_Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

cuz the table was too tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tall	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tall	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 tall	advmod
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cuz	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cuz	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	past	the table					tall property	tree rules

Option 2

cuz they didn't want his tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cuz	acl:relcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	they	his tail					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tail=Theme

Option 3

cuz he was way too big for them and might've knocked everything over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 way	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 way	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 way	cop
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 way	amod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 big	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 've	cc
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 've	aux
11	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 big	conj
12	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 way	acl
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 knocked	obj
14	over	over	ADV	_	12 knocked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cuz	way					tree rules
2	knock over	participle	way not said here	everything					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent everything=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cuz he was way too big for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 way	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 way	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 way	cop
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 way	amod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 big	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cuz	way					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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